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- Georges Doriot, a "towering figure" on the faculty since 1925, retires
- Helen Eastman, Secretary of the School, retires after 45 years of service; Ruth Hetherston, Associate in Research, retires after 37 years as casewriter
- Saturday classes eliminated for second-year students
- 11,263 alumni (42.4% of total) contribute $700,000 to HBS Fund
- 388 companies conduct 6,543 interviews of graduating students; only 173 recruit at least one
- 50th AMP session includes two-day symposium for 400 AMP alumni
- A graduate seminar, "Advanced Uses of Computers in Business," evaluates four computer terminal systems
- Abraham Zaleznik publishes Human Dilemmas of Leadership
- Baker Library sponsors colloquium on Source Materials in Business and Economic History, sponsored by new 5-year Kress Foundation grant
- Bertha Daniels retires after 42 years in research administration; is later honored (in 1982) with the establishment of a fellowship fund
- Cost of research program exceeds $1 million for the first time
- Division of International Activities, with help from AID, establishes program to give MBA graduates jobs in developing countries; 6 members of Class of '66 take 2-year assignments overseas
- First computer terminals are introduced into classrooms
- Frank Tucker publishes Small Business Management
- HBS Clubs established in Peru, Belgium, Geneva,and Zurich, bringing total number of international clubs to 14
- HBS enters into a time-sharing relationship with Harvard's Computation Center and other Harvard entities; goal is to have 18 remote computer terminals at HBS by January 2007, and 32 within several more months
- HBS receives Ford Foundation grant to assist three Philippine universities develop graduate business programs
- International Teachers Program, in 8th year of operation, enrolls 41 (largest class to date), including teachers from 16 countries
- John Dearden publishes Computers in Business Management
- Ken Andrews publishes The Effectiveness of University Management Development Programs, which wins Book Award from Academy of Management in 1967
- Little Chair, honoring industrialist Royal Little, is established; Charles Bliss is named first incumbent
- The Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professorship of Managerial Economics -- a joint HBS/Department of Economics chair -- is created; Howard Raiffa is named first incumbent
- Wickham Skinner publishes "Production Under Pressure" in HBR, anticipating U.S. manufacturing woes in coming decades
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